United States President, Donald Trump, has once again courted controversy after admitting uncertainty about his chances of making heaven, despite claiming to have made life better for millions across the globe.
Speaking with reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Israel on Sunday, President Trump, in a rare moment of introspection, said he was unsure his achievements and global peace efforts would be enough to secure him a place in heaven.
“I’m being a little cute,” the president said with a chuckle. “I don’t think there’s anything that’s going to get me into heaven. I really don’t. I think I’m not maybe heaven-bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I’m not sure I’m going to be able to make heaven, but I’ve made life a lot better for a lot of people.”
The remark came in response to a question by Peter Doocy of Fox News, who asked whether the president’s renewed peace plan for Israel and Hamas in Gaza had strengthened his spiritual standing.
True to his assertive style, Trump used the moment to revisit his long-held criticism of the 2020 U.S. election, insisting that the alleged irregularities that brought the Biden administration to power had plunged the world into crisis.
“We had an incompetent administration,” Trump declared. “We had an incompetent president. And because of a crooked election, millions of people are dead. By the way, the Israeli thing was much harder to get settled because of the past administration.”
The president further claimed that had the election not been “rigged,” he would have prevented Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and achieved what he described as “real global peace.”
Trump’s musings on his eternal fate first surfaced in August, during a Fox and Friends appearance where he had said: “If I can save 7,000 people a week from being killed, I think that’s pretty good. I want to try to get to heaven if possible. I’m hearing that I’m not doing well — I’m really at the bottom of the totem pole.”
Shortly after that interview, his campaign turned the comment into a fundraising drive, sending supporters an email titled “I want to try and get to heaven,” urging $15 donations.
In the email, Trump also recounted the near-death experience from the July 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. “Last year, I came millimetres from death when that bullet pierced through my skin,” he wrote.
